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Jdemnahouby

#! CrunchBanger

From: France, but living in Prague

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 222

usb stick to improve performance

http://conceptspace.wikidot.com/blog:20

it seems a very interesting tip, unfortunately, my /usr is 17G on so it seems too big...
How to reduce it to let it fit in a 8G usb stick?

C U

Adrien

tawan

#! Junkie

Registered: 2009-01-30

Posts: 385

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Re: usb stick to improve performance

Seems interesting but for USB not actually being quicker and flash memory wearing out.

Much more interesting is mounting often uses things to ram instead of HD.

There is a tip floating around teh interwebz about mounting your firefox cache to ram

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Jdemnahouby

#! CrunchBanger

From: France, but living in Prague

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 222

Re: usb stick to improve performance

Seems interesting but for USB not actually being quicker and flash memory wearing out.

Much more interesting is mounting often uses things to ram instead of HD.

There is a tip floating around teh interwebz about mounting your firefox cache to ram

I agree and don t agree, for low ram computer, this tip can help (if what he wrote is true), also maybe for people having "slow" HD, cause you "parallelize" transfers: applications on USB, datas on HD.
As he explains, his system is not to make full install on USB (I tried it yesterday and yes it s faster than live CD but slower than HD)
But only applications...
Sure this is slower than full RAM but as my ram is not 20G big ;-)

Last edited by Jdemnahouby (2009-10-11 16:51:43)

Jdemnahouby

#! CrunchBanger

From: France, but living in Prague

Registered: 2009-04-13

Posts: 222

Re: usb stick to improve performance

or maybe what he wrote is stupid :-)